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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 200906-05 ] Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200906-05)
Severity: high
Exploitable: remote
Date: June 30, 2009
Bug(s): #242996, #248425, #258013, #264571, #271062
ID: 200906-05
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark which allow for Denial of Service or remote code execution.
Background
Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer.
Affected Packages
Package: net-analyzer/wireshark
Vulnerable: < 1.0.8
Unaffected: >= 1.0.8
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark: - David Maciejak discovered a vulnerability in packet-usb.c in the USB dissector via a malformed USB Request Block (URB) (CVE-2008-4680).
- Florent Drouin and David Maciejak reported an unspecified vulnerability in the Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector (CVE-2008-4681).
- A malformed Tamos CommView capture file (aka .ncf file) with an "unknown/unexpected packet type" triggers a failed assertion in wtap.c (CVE-2008-4682).
- An unchecked packet length parameter in the dissect_btacl() function in packet-bthci_acl.c in the Bluetooth ACL dissector causes an erroneous tvb_memcpy() call (CVE-2008-4683).
- A vulnerability where packet-frame does not properly handle exceptions thrown by post dissectors caused by a certain series of packets (CVE-2008-4684).
- Mike Davies reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the dissect_q931_cause_ie() function in packet-q931.c in the Q.931 dissector via certain packets that trigger an exception (CVE-2008-4685).
- The Security Vulnerability Research Team of Bkis reported that the SMTP dissector could consume excessive amounts of CPU and memory (CVE-2008-5285).
- The vendor reported that the WLCCP dissector could go into an infinite loop (CVE-2008-6472).
- babi discovered a buffer overflow in wiretap/netscreen.c via a malformed NetScreen snoop file (CVE-2009-0599).
- A specially crafted Tektronix K12 text capture file can cause an application crash (CVE-2009-0600).
- A format string vulnerability via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable (CVE-2009-0601).
- THCX Labs reported a format string vulnerability in the PROFINET/DCP (PN-DCP) dissector via a PN-DCP packet with format string specifiers in the station name (CVE-2009-1210).
- An unspecified vulnerability with unknown impact and attack vectors (CVE-2009-1266).
- Marty Adkins and Chris Maynard discovered a parsing error in the dissector for the Check Point High-Availability Protocol (CPHAP) (CVE-2009-1268).
- Magnus Homann discovered a parsing error when loading a Tektronix .rf5 file (CVE-2009-1269).
- The vendor reported that the PCNFSD dissector could crash (CVE-2009-1829).
Impact
A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted packets on a network being monitored by Wireshark or by enticing a user to read a malformed packet trace file which can trigger a Denial of Service (application crash or excessive CPU and memory usage) and possibly allow for the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Wireshark.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Wireshark users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.0.8" |
References
CVE-2008-4680
CVE-2008-4681
CVE-2008-4682
CVE-2008-4683
CVE-2008-4684
CVE-2008-4685
CVE-2008-5285
CVE-2008-6472
CVE-2009-0599
CVE-2009-0600
CVE-2009-0601
CVE-2009-1210
CVE-2009-1266
CVE-2009-1268
CVE-2009-1269
CVE-2009-1829
Last edited by GLSA on Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:18 am; edited 1 time in total |
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